[DL] Fw: Union Station - modern roleplaying

[toadpooka@juno.com]

Roleplaying imitates life, or life imitates roleplaying? You be the
judge...
--
From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo
"Long live the legend, it'll outlive us"
-Violent Femmes, "Death Drugs"

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One player character ( a DEA agent) accompanied by two NPCs (a Chicago
cop
and an Amtrak cop) stopped two NPC villians suspected of trafficking
drugs
on Amtrak.  Everyone involved was armed and wearing a bulletproof vest,
since "they weren't supposed to be pushovers" the GM said.

When asked for ID, smuggler #1 unzipped his coat and failed his
concealment roll, revealing a weapon.  Ignoring the innocent bystanders
in
the terminal and giving away the situation the PC agent yelled "he's got
a
gun" The other NPC smuggler then succeed at Quickdraw, raising a weapon. 
Our hero grappled for the gun, but smuggler #2 won the strength check,
and
wrestled free, running a few feet away, and pointing at the PC.  Luckily,
he succeded in interrupting, rolled a successful quickdraw himself, and
shot smuggler #2 repeatedly wounding him critically. 

Turning his attention back to smuggler #1, he found that the NPC chicago
cop had a gun to her head, and the NPCs were struggling for the gun. 
Trying to help grapple for the gun, the DEA agent realized all those
points he spend in shootin' we're going to help him here, so he opened
fire.  When he missed he spent a Fate Chip to hit the Chicago cop only in
the leg, before shooting and fatally wounding smuggler #1.  

"yeah, I realized afterward that I should have said 'arm.' I mean, where
can you be aiming for a fatal shot, miss, and hit her in the leg.  Unless
she was upside down or something.  Or the shooter was really tall.  But
the end effect would've been the same, so I'm not going to bother to fix
it." the GM apologized. 

All in a days work, and only an NPC wounded.  Or so our hero THOUGHT
until
he found himself with a very small Bounty award.  Neither smuggler had
fired thier guns.  He had set off all the commotion himself... "it was
written so you could take them in, if you kept a cool head.  Then you
could get their boss.  But once he started screaming, I knew we were in
for a lot of dice." the GM explained.   


ALL OF THAT IS TRUE!  IN TODAYS TRIBUNE!  Well, not the GM comments, of
course, or the rolls, etc.  It doesn't say who yelled (but it was a cop) 
and it doesn't say who wounded the officer (BUT: the other two cops were
never said to have drawn, and it said "there was no evidence that either
of the suspects fired their weapons" according to CPD.  unless they're
counting it as an "accidental discharge of teh suspects weapon - which
you
wouldn't think they'd want to do)
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